Director of Sixth Form and Careers
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
Buckinghamshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- L10
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 7 May 2021
Job overview
A truly outstanding opportunity has arisen for an inspirational and highly capable teacher and leader to direct the very successful and popular Sixth Form at Borlase. The role entails leading a team of two assistant Heads of Sixth Form, three Student Support Officers and 18 form tutors. The new post holder would also work closely with the school’s Careers Lead overseeing Careers provision across the whole school. This is a strategic school position: the role involves sitting on the school’s Senior Leadership team with the Headteacher, Deputy and Assistant Headteachers. Applications are welcomed from existing pastoral or academic department leaders or from senior team members seeking to broaden their leadership experience.
The Borlase Sixth Form comprises a significant part of the school, numerically and culturally. The 420 students contribute with confidence to the school’s culture of empowering leadership. Almost all our Year 11 students choose to remain at Borlase and we welcome considerable numbers (80-90) new students into Year 12 each year. This creates a vibrant, dynamic community of passionate, enthusiastic and hard-working students, committed to sharing their ideas and interests with one another, the wider school and the community.
The Director of Sixth Form and Careers Lead is responsible for inspiring our highly able and aspirational students to achieve their full potential academically and personally. They are the key point of contact for pastoral matters across the Sixth Form, liaising with parents and carers. They will lead the vitally important Futures Programme, ensuring our students can access their first-choice post-Borlase destinations and develop the careers events programme for Key Stage 3 and 4 students.
The successful candidate will also teach about a .5 timetable: the specific subject of the candidate will not be a selection factor in this process.
For an application form please visit www.swbgs.com and click on Vacancies or email asummerfield@swbgs.com for more information.
Closing date: 9am, Friday 7 May 2021
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 12 May 2021
Applications submitted via email should be sent to Mrs Anna Summerfield, HR Manager at asummerfield@swbgs.com
The school is fully committed to the DfE guidance on Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education and all candidates for the post will therefore be subject to vetting procedures following Buckinghamshire Council's guidance on Safer Recruitment and Selection in Schools.
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About Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
- Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
- West Street, Marlow
- Buckinghamshire
- SL7 2BR
- United Kingdom
About Sir William Borlase's Grammar School:
Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school in the attractive Thames-side town of Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Founded in 1624 and still based on the original site, we are proud of our heritage as we approach our 400th birthday and excited to be inspiring and empowering the aspirations of our students today. Borlase is forward-looking; in 2019 we were awarded World Class School status from High Performance Learning for our innovative practice and received a government grant of over £2million to develop further our excellent facilities. We have a motivated staff of subject specialists who enjoy sharing their expertise with committed and engaged students. As a Teaching School, we have a particular strength in developing our teachers through a research-engaged professional development programme.
Headteacher
Ed Goodall.
Vision and Values
Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School is committed to being an inspirational learning environment for students and staff, empowering young people to fulfil their aspirations and ambitions; supporting them in developing the confidence to shape their own futures and in so doing, the future of the world around them.
Our values today are captured in the school motto, adopted by those early scholars back in 1624. Te Digna Sequere - Follow things Worthy - is a principle that underpins the distinctive ethos of the school. It reminds us all that we should have a clear moral purpose behind the choices we make; that we should value all individuals within a supportive community and that we have the potential to use our different talents to make a positive difference at Borlase and beyond.
The Borlase Curriculum provides a breadth and depth of academic learning and cultural experience to excite and extend all our students. It is rich in knowledge and in opportunities to develop creativity, instilling a life-long enthusiasm for learning. Our curriculum is delivered by passionate, specialist teachers who encourage aspiration, intellectual curiosity and the exploration of their subject disciplines inside and beyond the classroom, as independent thinkers and learners. It includes a broad range of super and extra-curricular opportunities which ignite and extend students' interests, enthusiasm and skills across a wide range of endeavours including those linked to academic subjects, to sports, the arts, engineering, AI, public speaking, creative writing, entrepreneurism and so much more.
Ofsted
"This is an outstanding school. The headteacher and senior leadership team have the very highest of expectations and have developed an inspirational learning culture which is embraced by both staff and students. Teaching and achievement are of the very highest quality and students take responsibility for their own learning.”
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